Introduction

To address the growing mobile device needs for automation testing, we have chosen to create an in-house virtual device lab as a cost-effective alternative for the real device cloud vendors in Carousell. This write-up is an in-depth article about the different stages of this project and the challenges we faced along the way.

In the previous article on Automated end-to-end tests and how they fit into our testing culture at Carousell, Martin shared on the need to run UI smoke tests for each pull request to provide developers with faster feedback. He also touched upon how we started to build…